For Immediate Release
February 7, 2006

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Elissa Free, (202) 662-9500

Left to right: First-place winners Michael Gitlin and Kelley Miller and second-place winners Jeffrey Malo and Agnieszka Samoc.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Georgetown Law students swept the American Bar Association's annual Law Student Tax Challenge, claiming first and second place, as well as the prize for "Best Written Submission," in a national competition for LL.M. students, which was held in San Diego on February 3.

Michael Gitlin and Kelley Miller claimed the top honor, while Agnieszka Samoc and Jeffrey Malo came in second and also won the award for "Best Written Submission." The team of Sonia Chien and Michele Hyndman also placed as finalists in the competition.  The first- and second-place teams were coached by Georgetown Law Adjunct Professor Fred Murray and the finalists by Georgetown Law Adjunct Professor Paul Schmidt.

The ABA Law Student Tax Challenge is one of the nation's largest tax competitions for law students and involves tax planning and client-counseling exercises designed to closely reflect everyday tax practice. The judges included some of the top practitioners and tax experts in the country. This is the first year that the ABA has offered this competition for students earning advanced law or LL.M. degrees.  

Georgetown Law offers one of the most extensive curricula in taxation law taught at any law school. This broad selection can be attributed in part to the rich talent pool from which Georgetown draws adjunct tax faculty as well as its distinguished full-time faculty.

 

About Georgetown Law

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world’s premier law schools. It has the largest full-time faculty in the nation and is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body.